While I enjoyed receiving feedback on my art, I’m just getting tired of people ignoring the link in the description, baselessly accusing me of using AI and not apologizing after I correct them. The latest accusation was on Tumblr and it was then that I just thought to myself “you know what, I’ve had enough of this”
I’ve kept receipts associated with my art on Internet Archive. I am also vehemently against using AI image generators, especially as someone who has had her art used without permission for usage in an AI output.
While I cherished the positive comments that I got, I don’t want to associate what is my hobby with any form of hostility, don’t want anxiety about people spreading misinformation about me as an artist so I’ve decided that from now on, I won’t be posting my art online. I’m still going to keep my old art up, I just won’t be posting any new art even though I’m still drawing.
Before I left Threads, I saw a lot of AI-generated images that got hundreds, even thousands of likes. I can definitely understand the paranoia which is why I post links to receipts including Paint Tool Sai files with dozens or hundreds of layers. Those files always take such a long time to upload to Internet Archive purely because of how big they are. As someone who has had her art stolen it’s hurtful to be accused of using AI. Honestly I think now is a very precarious time for artists to be posting their work online and like you, I hope something changes!